Year 17: Something happens to your home and your family is forced to move in with relatives. How does that work out? How long are you there for? What does your new home look like (if you manage to get one)?
We have a house fire. The space is limited but DH's sister loves having us there. We are there for a few months until we could buy another home. http://easttexashomesandland.com/wp-...stone-home.jpg

Year 1: Clairie and Jude decide to establish a charity foundation for children and families affected by childhood cancer. The foundation, called Knots of Love, sends woven bracelets and large checks to the children, their families, and research facilities.

Year 2: When Jude, who is in the military, gets transferred, the relatively-newlyweds say good-bye to their Swiss town and move to Liverpool, England. Their new house is a three-bedroom, old, brown stone home surrounded by trimmed green bushes.

Year 3: Clairie and Jude meet a boy called SamsonMichael McCartney through Jude's job. He is eighteen, divorced, and living alone. Samson's new girlfriend, though, is pregnant, barely making any money, and has already made it clear that she wants nothing to do with the baby. Clairie and Jude adopt Samson's daughter when she is born, and they call her SkylarElizabethMatthews.

Year 4: Clairie, who is a champion equestrian, wins a dressage show. With the winnings of 250,000 pounds, the family is able to fix up their house, donate a good sum to Knots of Love, and help Jude's eighteen-year-old half-sister JohannaReeceLangley out of debt.

Year 5: Jude and Clairie decide to try and have their first biological baby, and when they do they wind up with triplets! Three healthy baby boys are born eight months later. Clairie and Jude call them ChaseMichael, JackSamuel, and SpencerLucas.

Year 6: The family of six relocates to a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts, when Jude is again transferred. The new house is white with blue shutters and has a sprawling yard dotted with oak trees.

Year 7: Clairie's good friend from high school, BreannaCaitlin Hightower, dies in a car crash. When the will was read, Breanna had left her three-year-old son to Clairie. Because nobody knew of the little boy's father or his family, Clairie and Jude fly out to Missouri and adopt Breanna's son. His name is BraydenJoseph Hightower.

Year 9: Jude finishes serving his military time and the family doesn't have to move. So, they go on a vacation to the beach in Florida and spend days and nights at a resort. Everyone has a great time.

Year 10: Clairie and her neighbor, Nathalie Pennington, start an arts shop in the town. Its name is Pennington's and it sells expensive pens, journals, paint brushes, paints, canvases, the like.

Year 11: Jude's favorite cousin, Colin Hathaway, loses his wife. The family moves to Phoenix, Arizona, to be closer to their family. The new house is light brown sandstone with a red roof. The porch is covered with bright flowers in clay vases.

Year 12: Clairie's friend from Knots of Love, KeiraWylie, dies of very fishy unknown causes. Her husband is nowhere to be found, and neither is her family, so the state of Louisiana lets Clairie and Jude adopt Keira's three-year-old son, NathanRobertWylie.

Year 13: Colin Hathaway's daughter, Jessenia Hathaway, has just started preschool when she comes home telling of two kids who sat behind her school and asked the teacher for something to eat. This shocked both families, and the Matthews notified the police. The police found out that the kids, a boy and a girl, were twins being deprived of food by their mother for two weeks. The mother lost custody, and through lots of court cases and hearings Clairie and Jude are able to adopt the twins. The twins are five and named MitchellCameron and AllysonMarie.

Year 15: The family gets interviewed on a talk show because one-year-old Cecilia took an IQ test and got 157.

Year 16: Clairie and Jude hear, through a friend, about twin boys left on a highway and now in need of a good family. Clairie and Jude adopt the four-week-old boys and call them DavidAnthony and ColeBrandon.

Year 17: The family is again interviewed on a talk show. This time for having so many kids.

2005: This year, we packed up the pets and the boys and moved cross-country. Our new home is in Salem, Massachusetts.

2006: Our family increased again this year when we adopted twin five year old boys from Ethiopia,DanielHakeem Kander and David Melaku Kander

2007: This has been quite a year. Barry's mother, Adele, who lived in Boston, developed health issues which made it impossible for her to continue to live on her own. We decided to add a room onto our home and move her in with us. It has been an adjustment, but one that seems to be beneficial to all of us.

2008: And our family has grown yet again. This year we adopted 6 yr old triplets--two girls and a boy--from Germany. Their names are LieslAdeline Kander, JohannaGrace Kander and HansJesse Kander.

2009: Sadly, this year Teresa's best friend, Dave Rigsby, passed away this year, leaving behind two young daughters. We have opened our home to 3 yr old MarisaRose and 2 yr old RebeccaAnne and are in the process of adopting them, at which time their last names will become Rigsby-Kander.

2010: We were finally able to realize a dream of ours this year by opening a bookstore, which we call Tomes and Treasures.

2011: We have let the kids talk us into adding a parrot to our household this year. She is a beautiful blue and yellow Macaw, and her name is Aruba

2013: After losing Barry's mother last year, we decided it was time to make another brand new start. We sold the book store and our house in Salem, Massachusetts, and relocated to Amarillo, Texas this summer. Everyone seems to be enjoying the new location and settling in to a comfortable routine.

2014: Enjoying life in Texas didn't last very long, unfortunately. Barry and Teresa separated in March of this year, and were apart for six months. The children were very unhappy, as were both of their parents. After much counseling and hard work on both our parts, we were able to reunite in time to enjoy the holidays as a family.

2016: This year, Barry's younger brother, StuartAnderson Kander, who is 22 and just out of college, moves in with us when he starts his new job here in Amarillo. He stays for six months while getting on his feet, and then moves into his own apartment.

2017: We have a baby girl this year..our first single birth. We named her AdrienneElizabeth Kander.